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Coffee filter flowers are simple yet provide an opportunity for kids to be creative. You can pair these flowers with your favorite picture books for a fun book-based activity.
Below, I’ve featured ten coffee filter flower crafts that your kids can enjoy. I’ve paired each one with a book for your convenience. I hope you enjoy them as much as we did!

Coffee Filter Flowers for Kids
The list below has a variety of coffee filter craft ideas. They range in difficulty from easy to medium.
Older kids can make all of these crafts, but younger kids may need a little assistance from a grown-up to get started.
Coffee Filter Flower Headbands
These coffee filter flower headbands are a breeze to make, and your kids will love adding them to your dress-up center. Pair this craft with Pinkalicious Flower Girl.
Pinkalicious Coffee Filter Flower Craft
Learn how to make coffee filter flowers with this simple tutorial. It's the perfect craft to make alongside a reading of Pinkalicious.
Coffee filter Flower Craft
I think these coffee filter flowers look like mums. You can pair this craft with the book, Chrysanthemum.
How to Create Absolutely Beautiful Flowers with Coffee Filter Art
These coffee filter flowers provide kids with an opportunity to strengthen motor skills as they create the vibrant flowers. Pair this craft with Planting a Rainbow.
How to Make Coffee Filters Flowers Poppies
After reading The Poppy Lady to your students, have them make a coffee filter poppy to display or give away.
Tie Dye Coffee Filters Paper Flowers
The vibrant colors on these tie dye coffee filter flowers make them stand out. Share The Ultimate Tie Dye Book with your kids, and let them try tie dying a shirt next.
Coffee Filter Watercolor Art
Pair these colorful watercolor coffee filter flowers with Zinnia's Flower Garden for a fun spring activity.
Coffee Filter Flower
The pipe cleaner stem and pom pom center make this coffee filter flower perfect for preschoolers. Pair it with Lola Plants a Garden for a fun hands-on activity.
Easy Coffee Filter Flower Craft for Spring!
These no-mess coffee filter flowers are perfect for little ones. Pair this craft with I Can Grow a Flower for a fun science extension.
Beautiful Coffee Filter Suncatcher for Spring
Here's a fun twist on coffee filter flowers. Read The Great Tulip Trade, and then let your kids make these gorgeous flower suncatchers.

BOOKS ABOUT FLOWERS
Fill your book basket with a great collection of preschool flower books. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.
If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.
Look! Flowers! – Look! Flowers! They’re beautiful to see. Turn the page and you’ll find out how amazing they can be.
Mrs. Peanuckle’s Flower Alphabet – From the aster to the zinnia, Mrs. Peanuckle introduces very young children to 26 types of flowers from across the globe. For each one, she offers a single defining characteristic, some of them very surprising.
The Reason for a Flower – The reason for a flower is to manufacture seeds, but Ruth Heller shares a lot more about parts of plants and their functions in her trademark rhythmic style.

MORE FLOWER FUN
Explore the great outdoors with this sensational garden-themed sensory bin! This bin includes bugs, flowers, pots, colored gems, and more. It will certainly make your child blossom with excitement!
Preschoolers will strengthen fine motor skills as they creatively stack flowers, stems, and leaves with this Play 2 Grow Flower Garden playset.
These wooden lacing flower cards make for great on the go activities during a long shopping trip, or while waiting in the doctor’s office. They are a must-have in “busy bag”!
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